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The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Format

Paperback

Price

$22.00

Paperback

ISBN 9780140445787

928 Pages

1 Jun 1999

Penguin Classics

18 and up

Overview

Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to ‘represent’ their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 1. “Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest”2. Upon the Sight of the Portrait of a Female Friend3. “Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove”4. “So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive”5. On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway6. “The unremitting voice of nightly streams”7. Sonnet (To an Octogernarian)

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) 8. “Along this coast I led the vacant Hours”9. “Where alders rise up dark and dense”10. “The leaves are falling; so am I”11. To a Cyclamen12. Plays13. Cottage Left for London14. Malvolio15. The Duke of York’s Statue16. “I strove with none, for none was worth my strife”

Songs from The Princess:80. “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean”81. “Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white”82. from In Memoriam83. The Charge of the Light Brigade84. from Maud85. In the Valley of Cauteretz86. The Voyage of Maeldune87. Crossing the Bar

Alfred Domett (1811-87) 88. Invisible Sights

William Bell Scott (1811-90) 89. The Witch’s Ballad90. Silence

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) 91. The Three Sailors

Robert Browning (1812-89) 92. My Last Duchess93. Waring94. The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church95. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad96. The Lost Leader97. Fra Lippo Lippi98. A Toccata of Galuppi’s99. “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”100. Andrea del Sarto101. A Grammarian’s Funeral102. Two in the Campagna103. Youth and Art104. Caliban upon Setebos105. Never the Time and the Place106. Pan and Luna107. Spring Song108. Prologue (to Asolando)109. Dubiety110. Speculative

Eliza Cook (1812-89) 111. On Seeing a Bird-Catcher

Edward Lear (1812-88) 112. “There was an Old Man with a beard”113. “There was an Old Man in a tree”114. “There was a Young Lady of Tyre”115. “There was an Old Man who said, ‘Hush’!”116. “There was an Old Man of Cape Horn”117. “There was an Old Person of Cromer”118. “There was an Old Person of Troy”119. “There was an Old Person of Tring”120. “Tehre was an Old Man on some rocks”121. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat122. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

W. E. Aytoun (1813-65) 123. La Mort D’Arthur

Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) 124. Diving125. On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë

Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900) 234. Dream235. The Mystery of the Body236. Song (“The feathers of the willow”)

William Morris (1834-96) 237. The Haystack in the Floods238. Echoes of Love’s House239. Pomona

James Thomson (1834-82) 240. The City of Dreadful Night

Alfred Austin (1835-1913) 241. “Give me October’s meditative haze”

Sir Alfred Comyns Lyall (1835-1911) 242. Badminton

John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835-95) 243. On a Portrait of Sir John Suckling244. The Study of a Spider245. The Knight in the Wood246. The Pilgrim Cranes247. Lines to a Lady-Bird

Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-79) 248. Under the Surface

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 249. A Match250. A Cameo251. The Sundew252. The Garden of Proserpine253. Love and Sleep254. Ilicet255. A Rhyme

Augusta Webster (1837-94) 256. Mother and Daughter

David Gray (1838-61) 257. The Brooklet

John Todhunter (1839-1916) 258. Rain

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 259. Friends Beyond260. Neutral Tones261. Her Dilemma262. “I look into my glass”263. The Dream Drummer [Drummer Hodge]264. In the Old Theatre, Fiesole265. Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats266. Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11-12 p.m.267. An August Midnight268. The Darkling Thrush269. The Ruined Maid270. The Respectable Burgher271. The Self-Unseeing272. De Profundis I [In Tenebris I]

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) 321. The Light-Keeper322. “Love – what is love? A great and aching heart”From A Child’s Garden of Verses323. Bed in Summer324. At the Seaside325. Whole Duty of Children326. Rain327. Singing328. The Land of Nod

John Davidson (1857-1909) 343. Thirty Bob a Week344. A Labourer’s Wife345. New Year’s Day

A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944) 346. Neurasthenia347. Twilight

Constance Naden (1858-89) 348. Christ, The Nazarene

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) 349. On Dit

Dollie Radford (1858-1920) 350. From the Suburbs

Sir William Watson (1858-1935) 351. The Play of “King Lear”352. Byron the Voluptuary353. The Metropolitan Underground Railway

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) 354. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”355. “When I was one-and-twenty”356. “It nods and curtseys and recovers”357. “Others, I am not the first”358. “Into my heart an air that kills”359. “Far in a western brookland”360. “I hoed and trenched and weeded”

J. K. Stephen (1859-92) 361. Poetic Lamentation on the Insufficiency of Steam Locomotion in the Lake District362. England and America

Francis Thompson (1859-1907) 363. At Lord’s364. The End of It365. Daphne

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) 391. An Old Song Re-Sung [Down by the Salley Gardens]392. The Lake Isle of Innisfree393. The Sorrow of Love394. Breasal the Fisherman [The Fish]395. The Song of Wandering Aengus396. Aedh Laments the Loss of Love [The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love]397. The Valley of the Black Pig398. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven [He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven]399. The Fiddler of Dooney

Arthur Symons (1865-1945) 400. The Absinthe Drinker

John Gray (1866-1934) 401. Song of the Seedling402. The Vines403. Spleen